Dear members and friends of ipernity,


Happy New Year! Let's work together to have a joyful and healthy 2026.

1) Images suggested for groups.
We would love to hear from the membership with any thoughts and ideas on the initial roll-out of the following revision.

With the effort to clean up groups, it has been noted that groups often have images that do not fit the group's theme/topic. This is more prevalent in groups where images are added without being checked by an administrator. It is so easy to click 'add' when your photo is suggested for a group. Without some additional effort you don't even have to understand the title of the group or need to read the description or rules of a group before accepting the suggestion.


To address this issue, if you do not belong to the group being suggested, an extra step now requires that you view the group before the suggested image can be added. Such a group will be listed in italics and instead of the ‘add’ option, a ‘visit/add’ option will be shown. Visiting the group will let you see the recent contributions and allow you to read the description. Being on the group home page will of course provide the option to join the group, while it now also provides the option to add the suggested image.

2) Basic caution around ipermails and sharing private information.
Sadly (but rarely) a new user of our website will start sending inappropriate messages before we can delete their account. We also tend to err on the side of trust. So sometimes we wait to see if the website use is truely inappropriate or just ill-advised through ignorance. Because of this, please use caution in your communications with new members through ipermail.

We recommend never sharing private email addresses, especially since you can use ipermail without worry about your personal accounts being compromised.

Your ima team.